lawsuit seeks halt to tsa039s use of full-body scanners at airports amid safety concerns
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democracynoworg - as congress asks if full-body scanners are quoteffective security or security theaterquot we examine safety concerns at the heart of a lawsuit that seeks a freeze on the use body scanners pending an independent review the transportation and security administration has installed about 640 full-body millimeter wave and x-ray backscatter scanners at 65 airports as of january those who object to the full-body scans are subject to enhanced pat-downs and extremely invasive manual checks we039re joined by marc rotenberg executive director of the electronic privacy information center which is suing the tsa and propublica reporter michael grabell author of a series of critical articles on the new scannersto watch the complete daily independent news hour read the transcript and download the podcast please visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgfollow democracy now online:facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomdemocracynowtwitter: democracynowsubscribe on youtube: http:wwwyoutubecomdemocracynowlisten on soundcloud: http:wwwsoundcloudcomdemocracy-now daily email news digest: http:wwwdemocracynoworgsubscribeplease consider supporting independent media by making a donation to democracy now today visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgdonateyt

new details emerge over police fatal shooting of elderly ex-marine kenneth chamberlain sr
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democracynoworg - democracy now co-host juan gonzalez has obtained a photograph of white plains police officer anthony carelli the officer alleged to have fired the two shots that killed kenneth chamberlain sr the 68-year-old former marine whose medical alert button accidentally summoned police to his apartment last november the police union has blasted the release of the officer039s name saying he deserves the right to a fair and impartial inquiry chamberlain039s son said he agrees but notes that the white plains police failed to grant his father the same opportunity to watch the complete independent weekday news hour read the transcript and download the podcast please visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgfollow democracy now online:facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomdemocracynowtwitter: democracynowsubscribe on youtube: http:wwwyoutubecomdemocracynowlisten on soundcloud: http:wwwsoundcloudcomdemocracy-now daily email news digest: http:wwwdemocracynoworgsubscribeplease consider supporting independent media by making a donation to democracy now today visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgdonateyt

egyptian military kills 14 protesters attacks journalists in brutal tahrir crackdown
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democracynoworg - a new wave of violence in cairo039s tahrir square began friday when one of several hundred peaceful protesters staging a sit-in outside the parliament building was reportedly detained and beaten by troops up to 14 people have now been killed and hundreds injured over the last three days of clashes a video uploaded sunday on youtube has circulated widely and provoked outrage at the extent of police brutality it shows a young woman being dragged and beaten by military police the top half of her body is bare her blue bra exposed her abaya or robe has been ripped off and surrounds her upper body showing that she was wearing a hijab quotwhen this woman was beaten and disrobed happened there was probably much more video evidence of people being brutally beaten down but they039re not available because the army -- right after that raid -- entered the offices of most media outlets surrounding the square and confiscated equipmentquot says democracy now correspondent sharif abdel kouddous reporting from cairo kouddous says the military confiscated two of his cameras and he also saw them take cameras from al jazeera reporters quotthis was a clampdown on information on trying to prevent these kinds of pictures from emergingquot the police attacks have overshadowed the first parliamentary elections since former president hosni mubarak was ousted in februaryto watch the complete daily independent news hour read the transcript download the podcast and for more reports from egypt by sharif abdel kouddous visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgtabsegyptfollow democracy now online:facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomdemocracynowtwitter: democracynowsubscribe on youtube: http:wwwyoutubecomdemocracynowdownload the audio: http:wwwsoundcloudcomofficialdemocracynowdaily email news digest: http:wwwdemocracynoworgsubscribeplease consider supporting independent media by making a donation to democracy now today visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgdonateyt

watch: 10-ft high glacier wall breaks off slides onto highway in hprsquos kinnaur - youtube
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a 10-ft high glacier wall broke off in himachal pradeshrsquos kinnaur district sliding onto the highway several tourists were stranded even as they were warned

geek out: the future of microsoft and other news
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drake - headlines behind the scenes
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historic recall of wisconsin gov walker reveals quotpeople powerquot after 1 million sign petition
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democracynoworg - opponents of wisconsin republican gov scott walker have submitted more than a million signatures seeking his recall in a statewide vote the million-plus signatures amount to nearly double the required number of 540000 and may mark the largest recall effort in us history walker is being challenged for pushing through a controversial law ending collective bargaining rights for most public workers quotmost people do not realize that those one million signatures represent almost a half of the electorate in wisconsinquot says john nichols of the nation magazine quotwalker will be forced to face a new election because he adopted the austerity measure of the republican leadership of washington and try to balance budgets on the back of public employees tried to destroy their unions try to cut school funding and succeeded in cutting funding and we are going to have a referendum on the most fundamental of economic issuesquotto watch the complete daily independent news hour read the transcript download the podcast and for the additional information on democracy now visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgfollow democracy now online:facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomdemocracynowtwitter: democracynowsubscribe on youtube: http:wwwyoutubecomdemocracynowlisten on soundcloud: http:wwwsoundcloudcomdemocracy-nowdaily email news digest: http:wwwdemocracynoworgsubscribeplease consider supporting independent media by making a donation to democracy now today visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgdonateyt

daredevil nik wallenda walks high wire above milwaukee racetrack
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acrobat nik wallenda on tuesday august 11 completed his longest high-wire walk ever above the milwaukee mile racetrack during the wisconsin state fair ending with a thumbs up to the crowd below giving him a wild ovation a fair official saidwallenda took 33 minutes to walk 1560 feet 475 m on a wire no wider than a us nickel 10 stories above the racetrack near the state fair groundswallenda the self-proclaimed king of the high wire has several records listed with the guinness world records organization his feats have included high-wire walks above the brink of niagara falls between two chicago skyscrapers while blindfolded and across the grand canyon in arizonawallenda is part of the seventh generation of the famed flying wallenda family of acrobats his great-grandfather karl wallenda slipped and fell to his death from a high wire in puerto rico in 1978latest news center: one of the most watched news channel on youtubewebsite: http:wwwlatestnewscentercomtwitter: http:twittercomlnewscgoogle: https:plusgooglecom117035035128078200000lta href=quothttp:wwwlatestnewscentercomquotgtlatest news centerltagt

florida legislative black caucus urges federal probe of local police in trayvon martin case
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democracynoworg - we speak with florida democratic state representative mia jones who fought the passage of florida039s so-called quotstand your groundquot law that authorities say has prevented them from arresting trayvon martin039s shooter george zimmerman who is claiming he acted in self defense jones is chair of the florida legislative black caucus who sent letters to attorney general eric holder and florida gov rick scott calling for impartial investigations into the shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old martin last month she says the caucus039s 24 members will work to re-evaluate the gun lawto watch the complete daily independent news hour read the transcript download the podcast and for democracy now interviews about racial profiling please visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgfollow democracy now online:facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomdemocracynowtwitter: democracynowsubscribe on youtube: http:wwwyoutubecomdemocracynowlisten on soundcloud: http:wwwsoundcloudcomdemocracy-nowdaily email news digest: http:wwwdemocracynoworgsubscribeplease consider supporting independent media by making a donation to democracy now today visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgdonateyt

guantnamo exclusive: former chief prosecutor ex-detainee call on obama to close prison 1 of 2
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wwwdemocracynoworg - on the tenth anniversary of when the united states began detaining terror suspects at its guantnamo bay military base in cuba we speak with a former prisoner and the ex-chief us prosecutor who both call for the obama administration to close the base quotpeople are locked up in isolation camps people lost their hands lost their eyes lost their limbsquot says omar deghayes who was arrested in pakistan as a terror suspect and held in us custody from may 2002 until december 2007 most of that time at guantnamo quotsome people were subjected to sleep deprivation they weren039t allowed to sleep and they had to live under those conditions for six years without being convicted of any crime which is the most unacceptable thingquot asked if prisoners were tortured at guantnamo air force colonel morris davis the former chief prosecutor at the military prison answers quoti don039t think there is any doubtquot davis resigned his position in 2007 in protest of what he called political interference in the military commissions of guantnamo prisoners quotin many cases we had evidence independent of that torture that was sufficient to establish guilt but to use torture to gain intelligence and then also to turn around and use that as evidence in an american court is just not consistent with american principlesquot davis says watch part 2: http:youtubeao2t7_5imowto watch the complete daily independent news hour read the transcript download the podcast and for 10 years of democracy now reports on guantnamo visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgtagsguantanamofollow democracy now online:facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomdemocracynowtwitter: democracynowsubscribe on youtube: http:wwwyoutubecomdemocracynowlisten on soundcloud: http:wwwsoundcloudcomdemocracy-now daily email news digest: http:wwwdemocracynoworgsubscribeplease consider supporting independent media by making a donation to democracy now today visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgdonateyt

hulu - the tonight show with jay leno: mon oct 25 2010 - watch the full episode now
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north korea unveils 039monster039 intercontinental missile - youtube
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north korea unveiled a previously unseen intercontinental ballistic missile at an unprecedented predawn military parade that displayed the country039s long-ran

eight teens arrested after las vegas high school student039s beating death - youtube
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officials with the las vegas metropolitan police department announce the arrests of eight high school students on suspicion of murder in connection with the

democracy now correspondent anjali kamat on reporting the revolutions in egypt and libya
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wwwdemocracynoworg - democracy now special correspondent anjali kamat has just returned from cairo after nearly a year reporting on the revolutions in egypt and libya anjali was on the ground in cairo covering the uprising that overthrew hosni mubarak and the ensuing crackdowns on protesters opposed to military rule kamat also made two trips to libya to cover the uprising and ultimate overthrow with the aid of nato forces of the gaddafi regime quotone of the things that was really remarkable over the past year that i saw in both egypt and libya is the fearlessness of peoplequot kamat says quoti was really taken aback by the scenes of crowds of people running into armed tanks running into vehicles that opened opening fire -- people just without any fearquot kamat also addresses an issue that has divided many progressive critics of western militarism: the reality that the nato intervention in libya despite charges of hypocrisy and ulterior motives enjoyed widespread amongst libyans seeking to topple the hated gaddafi regimeto watch the complete daily independent news hour read the transcript or download the podcast visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgfollow democracy now online:facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomdemocracynowtwitter: democracynowsubscribe on youtube: http:wwwyoutubecomdemocracynowdaily email news digest: http:wwwdemocracynoworgsubscribeplease consider supporting independent media by making a donation to democracy now today visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgdonateyt

beirut blast: two women on the ground in lebanon describe the explosion and aftermath 7news - youtube
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residents of beirut awoke to a scene of utter devastation on wednesday a day after a massive explosion at the port sent shock waves across the lebanese capi